(LifeSiteNews) — An actress known for playing a role in Marvel films recently criticized Hollywood for praising masculinity in women and belittling it in men. She also questioned why the industry treats feminine men as idols while simultaneously “debasing” similar traits in women.
Evangeline Lilly, who plays Hope van Dyne/the Wasp in Marvel’s Ant-Man series as well as Tauriel in The Hobbit trilogy, posted a lengthy reflection on Instagram last week questioning why Hollywood has turned to belittling men and women unless portraying traits of the opposite sex.
“Why are we only applauding masculinity in women and villainizing it in men?” Lilly wrote. “And why are we only applauding femininity in men and debasing it in women?”
“Why can’t we just allow for all of it? Why do we feel the need to vilify a man wearing s***-kicker boots, driving a pickup truck who’s not afraid to punch someone in the face, but if they were a woman, they would be the epitome of cool? Why is a man who loves make-up, cries easily and stays at home to tend to the domestic responsibilities valiant, but a woman who does the same is pathetic?”
Lilly then called for allowing men and women to practice traditional gender roles without shame, saying that society should “teach grace and charity above all things.”
The son of pastor Artur Pawlowski could be facing massive fines and jail time after he preached Bible verses outside a drag queen story time held at a public library over the weekend.
Nathaniel Pawlowski was detained and ticketed on Saturday by Calgary Police Service (CPS) because he was preaching too “close” to the drag event, in an apparent violation of a new and oppressive bylaw.
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Pawlowski said that he was outside the event to “preach, read the Bible and just speak.”
Video of the incident shows Pawlowski along with his friend Deklan Friesen speaking to a crowd outside the library.
Calgary City Council last month passed a new “Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw” that disallows “specified protests” both inside and outside all city-owned and affiliated public buildings. Mayor Jyoti Gondek put her full support behind the buffer zone bylaw.
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The bylaw means pastors or concerned parents protesting pro-LGBT events at public buildings are barred from getting within 100 meters of any such location.
Top constitutional lawyer John Carpay recently blasted Calgary City Council for going to “war” against Canadians’ freedoms by using bylaws to target people’s ability to protest events at public facilities, including drag queen performance directed at children.
In an opinion piece published on March 17 in the Western Standard, Carpay said “freedom of expression is meaningless if citizens are only allowed to say what’s approved by the government, or if expression is banished from public spaces.”
Pawlowski noted that his ticket has no penalty listed yet, as police must “review the evidence on me and that they will be stopping by my home to issue charges.”
His ticket does have a mandatory court appearance date. Each charge under Calgary’s bylaw carries a maximum fine of up to $10,000 and up to a year in jail.
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Pawlowski had asked the police officers if they would also be enforcing “the same law on to the other side with the Antifa protesters”, but nobody was served a ticket except for he and Friesen.
In June 2022, Calgary City Council, under its left-leaning Mayor Jyoti Gondek, amended the city’s bylaws to “specifically prohibit insulting or demeaning behavior, including unwanted sexual advances, or harassing anyone on the basis of age, race, sexual orientation, disability, gender, gender identity or gender expression, among others.”
In February, Gondek vowed to use the bylaw to go after drag queen story hour protesters after some of the events were postponed by pro-family objectors.
In early March, fulfilling her promise, Calgary City Council then passed the bylaw that banned protesting against drag queen story hours or any other “LGBTQ” events held at public facilities.
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Carpay noted that while there are limits to free speech, “Canadians have every right to express their views in public places, regardless of the content of the expression.”
He also wrote how a 1992 Supreme Court of Canada decision in R. v. Zundel “explained all communications which convey or attempt to convey meaning are protected by the Charter [of Rights and Freedoms], unless the physical form by which the communication is made (for example, a violent act) excludes protection.”
“The purpose of the Charter’s free expression guarantee is to promote truth, self-fulfillment, and political and social participation. That purpose extends to the protection of minority beliefs which the majority regards as wrong or false,” wrote Carpay.
According to Carpay, Gondek seems to “believe it is wrong or false to oppose drag queen story readings in public libraries.”
“She is entitled to express her views, but not to impose her views on others by effectively banning peaceful public protests through a so-called ‘Safe and Inclusive Access’ bylaw,” noted Carpay.
There exists a “freedom of expression” which includes the “right” to choose “high-visibility locations to hold up signs or banners, sing or chant, hand out literature, gather signatures on a petition, and have a speaker get up on her soapbox,” continued the lawyer.
“Protests are often held at the locations where injustices (or perceived injustices) are actually occurring,” he added.
Christian pastor Derek Reimer was jailed and charged in early March for protesting a children’s drag queen story hour at a public library in Calgary.
Carpay wrote that the city council’s use of “coercive power to relegate peaceful protesters to obscure locations where they cannot be seen or heard,” amounts to “crushing a fundamental Charter freedom on which our democracy depends.”
“The point of protests is to be seen and heard,” wrote Carpay.
Carpay noted that being forced to stand 100 meters away from high-visibility and high-traffic areas “reduces freedom of expression to near irrelevance.”
“Protecting entrances from obstruction is already taken care of by the Criminal Code, and does not require a bylaw that imposes up to $10,000 in fines and up to a year in jail for peacefully protesting less than the length of four swimming pools away from an entrance,” charged Carpay.
According to Carpay, the Charter’s protection for free speech applies to those at the receiving end of a person speaking out.
“Potential listeners who have the right to hear diverse points of view, and to decide for themselves what is true and false rather than having Mayor Gondek decide on their behalf,” said Carpay.
“Calgary’s ‘Safe and Inclusive Access’ bylaw violates the rights of all Calgarians, speakers and listeners, and attacks diversity of thought and belief.”
Carpay noted that “repressive regimes always take great pains to ensure their subjects are kept ‘safe’ from ideas which the regime believes to be wrong or false.”
“In the past – and still today – those living in communist North Korea, national socialist Germany, theocratic Iran, Putin’s Russia, communist China and many other places have been kept very safe from ideas that the regime dislikes,” wrote Carpay.
Carpay noted that in a “free society,” there is no way everyone can be “safe” from hearing one’s opposing views.
“The ‘safety’ which woke activists on Calgary City Council are promising is attractive to those who support children being exposed to drag queens at public libraries,” wrote Carpay.
“But beware of the erosion of freedom, because the demons of censorship cannot be controlled after their release.”
In addition to Carpay, the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) has also objected to the new bylaw, and has vowed to commence a legal challenge against the “unconstitutional” policy.
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“These overarching ideas are far simpler and more effective than trying to juggle the minutia of judgment,” the post continues. “They are ideas that protect us all from the excesses of each person’s vices while still allowing the expression of their self [sic].”
“Grace and charity are cornerstones of a thriving society and should not be abandoned. We need them like we need democracy, justice and peace. And, without them, we can’t have democracy, justice or peace.”
Lilly concluded her post by quoting St. Augustine: “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
The actress’s words come amid a growing trend in Hollywood to promote the LGBT agenda. In 2015, LifeSiteNews reported on data that showed a record high in homosexuality portrayed in Hollywood films, with almost 16% of movies produced in 2014, including at least one homosexual, lesbian or bisexual character.
After the release of the final movie in Marvel’s popular Avengers series in 2019, the franchise announced an LGBT-themed subplot for another film centered around the iconic superhero Thor. Disney, which owns Marvel, has a substantial history of pushing the LGBT agenda in its movies and TV shows, including through cartoons for preschoolers, sequels to classic animations, and remakes of decades-old shows.
More recently, Disney continued its downhill spiral of caving to woke ideologies by introducing a teenager who is romantically attracted to another boy in a storyline which turned out to be a box office flop.
Lilly’s message also comes alongside society’s push to embrace gender ideology and blur the lines between masculinity and femininity thanks to transgenderism. Notably, Dylan Mulvaney, a gender-confused man who attracted international attention for his “days of girlhood” TikTok series, has become the face of femininity for woke culture. While obtaining profitable partnerships from major corporations such as Kate Spade and Nike, Mulvaney’s greatest controversy involves Bud Light. The company has lost 26% of its sales so far due to an ongoing boycott of the brand, suggesting that many people agree with Lilly’s criticism of praising men pretending to be women.
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